PETALING JAYA: The Malaysia Productivity Corp (MPC) and Malaysia Digital Economy Corp (MDEC) are collaborating on a series of webinar starting tomorrow, which is expected to benefit about 10,000 businesses, especially those adopting e-commerce and e-payment.

       The webinar is part of the Go-eCommerce onboarding and Shop Malaysia online campaign, which kicked off on July 1 and will run till Dec 31.

       “We are targeting 10,000 businesses to benefit from this initiatives via the series of webinar in collaboration with key e-commerce players such as Touch N’ Go, Boost, Beep and others starting from Aug 12,” MPC director-general Datuk Abdul Latif Abu Seman said in a statement yesterday.

       “We envision that the collaborative effort will help businesses in the onboarding on e-commerce platforms with the aim to optimise their operations and improve customer experience.”

       The mandate given under MyDigital to accelerate eCommerce onboarding programme for offline food and beverages businesses will inevitably boost productivity and economic competitiveness of the businesses.

       The collective efforts towards digitalisation is showing results as Malaysia’s position in the “digital transformation in companies” indicator of the World Competitiveness Yearbook ranking has improved to 22nd in 2021 from 26th in 2020. — Bernama